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髪

髪

See also: 髮

Translingual

Traditional	髮
Shinjitai	髪
Simplified	发

Han character

髪 (radical 190 髟+4, 14 strokes, cangjie input 尸竹大水 (SHKE), composition ⿱髟友)

References

KangXi: not present, would follow page 1453, character 8

Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 45387

Dae Jaweon: page 1983, character 30

Hanyu Da Zidian: not present, would follow volume 7, page 4519, character 7

Unihan data for U+9AEA

Japanese

Kanji

髪

(common “Jōyō” kanji, shinjitai kanji, kyūjitai form 髮)

Readings

Goon: ほち (hochi)
Kan’on: はつ (hatsu)
Kun: かみ (kami)

Compounds

Compounds

艾髪 (がいはつ) ‎(gaihatsu): the hair of an old person, an old person
仮髪 (かはつ) ‎(kahatsu): wig, hairpiece
金髪 (きんぱつ) ‎(kinpatsu): blond hair
銀髪 (ぎんぱつ) ‎(ginpatsu): silver hair
束髪 (そくはつ) ‎(sokuhatsu): bundling one's hair, or the hair so bundled; a pompadour-like traditional Japanese hairstyle for women
短髪 (たんぱつ) ‎(tanpatsu): short hair
長髪 (ちょうはつ) ‎(chōhatsu): long hair
緑髪 (りょくはつ) ‎(ryokuhatsu): glossy black hair

Kanji in this term
髪
かみ Grade: S
kun'yomi

Pronunciation

Kun'yomi
(Tokyo) かみ [kàmíꜜ] (Odaka - [2])^[1]^[2]
IPA^(key): [ka̠mi]

Noun

髪 ‎(shinjitai kanji, kyūjitai kanji 髮, hiragana かみ, romaji kami)

hair on the head

Derived terms

縺 (もつ)れ髪 (がみ) ‎(motsuregami, “tangled hair”)

References

↑ 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, ISBN 4-385-13905-9
↑ 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, ISBN 978-4-14-011112-3